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 | LONDON - Supermarket chain Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, announced Thursday rising sales during the festive period, which followed a strong third quarter despite uncertainty over Brexit... Read |
 | TOKYO - Uniqlo's parent company said Thursday that quarterly net profit jumped by almost half from a year ago, as it refocused on a strategy aimed at luring thrifty shoppers... Read |
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 | MONTREAL - The Canadian branch of US online retailer Amazon will pay Can$1.1 million ($836,967) over allegedly misleading pricing on its website, the government said on Wednesday... Read |
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 | Chinese tech giant Lenovo announced on Tuesday it was launching a smart home assistant powered by Amazon's Alexa, becoming the latest firm to enter the market for voice-activated devices... Read |
 | MUNGO PARK Supply chain trends will continue to be driven by the need to support business in meeting customer expectations while continuing to better manage and control costs... Read |
 | Research across consumers in 12 countries finds those that prefer digital engagement channels to human customer service are more likely to switch brands... Read |
 | MARK ALLIX South African chicken producers, the South African Poultry Association, and labour mainly blame "dumping" of dark chicken meat products, such as legs, for the industry's woes as producers struggle to sustain operations... Read |
 | ROBERT LAING Retailer says exclusion of Boxing Day from first-half figures is partly to blame for lacklustre sales growth... Read |
 | ROBERT LAING Luxury goods group says women's fashion brand Chloé, fountain pen and watchmaker Montblanc and men's clothing brand Peter Millar performed well... Read |
 | On Thursday Truworths International reported a 21% rise in retail sales to R10.2bn for the 26-week period that ended on Christmas Day... Read |
 | Kees van der Westen, described as the Da Vinci of espresso machines, was in Cape Town for the first time on 12 January 2017 to visit Coco Safar SA... Read |
 | "Economic uncertainties, including movements in exchange rates, are likely to influence food markets even more so this year." Read |
 | COLLEEN GOKO There are further signs of trouble in SA's struggling retail sector, with Woolworths releasing a poor trading update that analysts say can only be a bad omen for the rest of the retailers still to release their Christmas figures... Read |
 | MARK ALLIX A catastrophe is about to decimate a major part of Astral Foods chicken operation... Read |
